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Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was released from situation successful the United States connected Monday (December 1, 2025), wherever helium was serving a 45-year situation condemnation for cause trafficking and firearms charges, a Federal Bureau of Prisons registry showed.
Hernandez's wife, Ana Garcia, said successful a societal media station that Hernandez was released aft helium was granted a pardon by U.S. President Donald Trump.
"After astir 4 years of pain, waiting, and hard trials, my hubby Juan Orlando Hernandez returned to being a escaped man, acknowledgment to the statesmanlike pardon granted by President Donald Trump," Ms. Garcia said.
The merchandise came days aft a statesmanlike predetermination successful Honduras, successful which Mr. Trump has backed statesmanlike campaigner Nasry Asfura of the blimpish National Party, who is facing disconnected with wide Salvador Nasralla.
The latest ballot number showed some candidates practically tied holding conscionable nether 40% of the vote.
Mr. Asfura's enactment forged a adjacent concern with Washington nether Hernandez, who governed from 2014 to 2022 and was arrested soon aft leaving office.
Hernandez was sentenced successful June past twelvemonth and called his condemnation wrongful.
